The government has only set out plans to bring even more hyperscale data centres to Scotland rather than setting out clear regulations, ignoring the campaigners, residents, local businesses and the 24,000 signatures the Greens received on this issue.
Commenting on the Scottish Government's Programme for Government.
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The question of whether Scotland is risking complicity in genocide could hardly be more serious or more urgent. The Economy Secretary must intervene.
This is an important step by the SNP’s National Council, and I hope the Scottish Government now acts on it.
The far right is growing in confidence and becoming increasingly emboldened. That is why we are seeing such dangerous escalation.
If hundreds of megawatts of renewable electricity are diverted from homes to hyperscale data centres, it has the very real potential to destabilise our power grid, undoing the work we’ve achieved towards net-zero.
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